The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-11-29

reinvestcd In others that were treated TO pre-
cisely the same process and which in turn
| yielded an annual profit.
| Now herd started in inst the way / have
| described, and for the purposes | have named
| has increased tremendously This year the
| college has $50 head in ALL divided into 81
! head Of pure Jerseys Deyons, Durhams and
| Holstens, 17j head Of graded cattle, and
| ifty-fye head of common breed. The cattlerep-
resent the profit of the farmer; the high grade
cows supply milk for creamery whose daily
| product is $50 pounds Of as fine sbuttcr as q
man ever saw upon his table, This butter is
| shipped to New Orleans where it is sold to
! hotels and restaurants. A practical butter
maker is at the head of the dairy, but the stu
! dents perform the greater part Of the work.
| They soon become expert dairynen and butter
makers, and every year numerous applications
| are received by General Leo from the pro-
| prictors of large stock farms asking for some
| intelligent student 10 take charge of The work
| there General Lee called to mind dozen or
more boys who had secured positions in just
this manner, and without single exception
every one had done we'll and given perfect sat
isfaction.
Professor Gulley, of course, in pursuing this
system Of rcclaiming land, does not undertake
TO reclaim all at once, lie confines his opera
tons to a limited number of acres each year.
in order that it may be thoroughly done. The
rest of the farm is cultivated with intelligence
and feed crops are grown entirely. Nothing
else is cultivated, for the reason that the OBJ
icct is to raise food for the cattle, for by the
cattle the profit is made. He does not plant
cotton, for the reason that he has not yet got
ten the land to that point where he believes
cotton could be raised with profit. Whenever
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pose is 10 raise some cotton, but his theory is
that no one can afford to plant cotton ON poor
land. A large amount Of worn-out worthless
land has been reclaimed in eight years; once
gotten up to the standard or even to the point
where its product is paying, the land is never
allowed to so backwards. but by system Of
rotation Of crops and by putting on il the profit
over and above the expense of cultiyating it
each year. in the shape Of permanent fertiliza-
ton, the land is yearly growing richer and
richer
The cost Of working the college farm, in
GLIDING the wages Of the foreman, is about
5000 per year. This expense is met by the
sale of cattle, butter, milk, etc. Take, for in
stance, one year, and | choose 1896, for the
reason that / have the figures before me 1868
worth of cattle were sold, $224774 worth of
beef on foot were sold, 81 ,293.37 worth OF milk
was sold, $5Sl96 worth of butter, while the
products Of field crops, over and above what
was necessary for the place, amounted to
SSl4.50. Here from five items was realized
S6,902.57, and at the same time the college
supplied 276 students with every thing they
desired, that could be raised or supplied from
the farm. Professor Gulloy admits that he
could not make this showing without the
aid Of cattle, but you will observe
that he could not maugurate
the system of improving his land without the
cattle. Everything that is made over and
above the cost OF production goes right back
upon the land in the way Vi permanent inn
provements. Mile after mile Of fenciag has
been erected, this is necessary because Of the
system of pasturing bitches have been cut
terraces have been built, old hillsides that for
years held up to heaven the barrest of faces
have been sodded with grass, fields whose To-
cations and whose soils prevent them from be-
ing planted in cereals have been sown and
sodded in different grasses Bermuda, the
Georgia farmers pest and salvation
has been imported by the barrel full
and its long roots beddcd in the
ground; orchards of apple, peach, pear, and
vineyards have been started and bid fair to
be woudrously successful. The agricultural
college last year shipped nearly a thousand
dollars worth of Strawberries to Chicago. and
also placed ON market other articles like
grapes, fruit, etc in few years, when the
orchards get older, the revenue from this
source will be something amazing.
At this place everything is worked to adj
vantage Nothing is wasted More care is
taken than there is bestowed upon the places
OF a thousand farmers combined. Students
are taught habits that alone viii do much to
make them successful farmers; tools and i'm
plcments do not remain in the fields, but are
brought TO tho yard and placed under shelter
and when the years work is completed, they
are painted and repaired and stored away for
the next years use.
The people about Starkville who knew this
place eight years ago tell me a Transformation
scene has been wrought here, and in another
letter | viii give II comparison of figures and
facts that WILL in a measure, show the degree
and nature of the "wondrous transformation
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